What influenced Hitler's 25 point program?

by Crappy_Historian

Why was it made made in the first place? Is it right to say it was the birth of the Nazi party?

callanquinn

The NSDAP 25 point program, drawn up by Hitler, Anton Drexler and other early leading Nazi's, drew from a few different sources, but it is a relatively unoriginal manifesto. It is rather unremarkable in the sense that it re-iterates many of the principles of the Volkish movement (a right wing nationalist political ideology) that were so prevalent in 1920's Wiemar Germany, such as land reform, re-armament and the revoking of the much detested Versailles treaty. What sets it apart from other Nationalist manifesto's is Hitler's influence, which can be seen in certain points regarding the curbing of immigration (I seem to recall a particularly outlandish demand for the immediate deportation of any immigrant who emigrated to Germany later than August 1914, but I leave this open to dispute), and the demand that Jews cannot be considered as part of the German race. Whilst anti-semitism was a part of the Volkish movement, it's prevalence and venomous nature in the NSDAP manifesto is striking.

Whilst it would be technically incorrect to say it would be the birth of the Nazi Party, as the party had been formed in 198/19, it certainly marked it's beginning as a "serious" political movement, albeit at this stage a radical, fringe movement of a local variety, and was still a long way off the party that would eventually drive Germany to ruin in 1933

Ian Kershaw, Hitler, Chp.5 The Beerhall Agitator